Seriously. There is nothing wrong with a neutral facial expression. If the person were scowling at you, sure, complain then. But simply not smiling? Fuck those customers.

Yeah. I worked at Wal~Mart as a teen (tilde or die) after they took over a smaller chain where I’d been happily working for about two years.

I had an assistant manager ask me how to spell a word once. I was pretty sure she was writing me up. She asked, “How do you spell ‘motivated?’ M-o-v-i-t-a-t-e-d’?”

I used to work in the hotel industry. I’ve heard customers complain that the staff didn’t “smile with their eyes,” and there was even one staff member that complained because they found out that one of the staff was a student working towards their teaching credential. Why was that a problem? They couldn’t really…

They’re not giving those retail workers money they’re giving a corporation money. A smile may cost that worker plenty.

Smiling and politeness is one thing and I realize that is part of the job, but being fired, not for not smiling, but for not projecting a “genuine smile” is a bit much.

You’re not giving them money, though, you’re giving their employer money. Not getting a smile also costs nothing, and feeling like you’re owed a smile by “common courtesy” is weird and control freakish. What, exactly, does the smile do for you?

Because unsmiling employees reveal the exploitative nature of capitalism? And we desperately want to pretend we’re not upholding toxic systems? That’s my theory.

Many’s the time I’ve had customers complain about various employees being “abrupt and cold” or “unfriendly and unwelcoming” or “snotty- like he/ she is too good to be helping me”.

And not to mention that Americans get personally offended when they see checkout employees sitting in a chair. Because god forbid anyone not stand in one spot for 4 hours at a time. Again, why do they care? Why should people hurt their spines over a (sometimes) minimum wage job?

............what? What is everyone’s preoccupation with overwhelming customer service? I cant stand that.

I’m not talking about people complaining about poor service. I’m talking about people who consider a neutral facial expression to be poor service.

Wow, you’re still an elitist, again.

There are people who are naturally shy and don’t feel comfortable engaging in conversation with complete strangers. And please cut that whole, “if you don’t like people don’t work in customer service” shtick! It’s unfair to people who have no choice other than to work those kind of jobs.

But people TOLD subway that Jared was a pedophile and they hushed it up. Everyone should be suing subway, especially but not limited to the wife with SMALL CHILDREN that subway didn’t inform.

I feel micro aggressed by this and need to repair to my safe space for meditation and inner contemplative time. And weed.

I have yet to read an actual “I’m a third-party voter” post that isn’t some variation of “I’m a child and have a child’s understanding of how American politics work - aren’t I special?!”

Both candidates are historically unpopular. One is a monster with no discernible human feelings, who takes and gropes and whines and threatens and mocks and hates and spews and looms and sputters and fails and bankrupts and steals and looks at the United States and says, “Pretty nice country you got here, it’d be a…

I’ve heard all the arguments and pleas to vote for the lesser of two evils. No thank you.

You mean like this: http://www2.ed.gov/documents/press-releases/college-promise-playbook.pdf